Christos Kapralos
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Christos Kapralos was a Greek
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 artist of the 20th century. He was born in Panaitolto in the municipality of Thesties

He studied drawing at a school with the help of the Agrinian Papastratou Bros. and continued studied writing at Paris
Paris
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 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art school in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, France. The school was founded in 1902 by the Swiss Martha Stettler , who refused to teach the strict academic rules of painting of the École des Beaux-Arts. It opened the way to the "Art Indépendant"...

 and at Académie Colarossi
Académie Colarossi
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, he had a student named Oumbertos Argyros, his professor was Marcel Gimond
Marcel Gimond
Marcel Gimond was a French sculptor born in the Ardèche region of France.Gimond first studied at the Beaux-Arts Academy in Lyon and was the student in turn of both Aristide Maillol and Auguste Rodin. Gimond was an influential Professor at the Paris Beaux -Arts until 1960...

. He returned to Greece
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 and in Panaitolio (or Panetolio) in 19450 and in 1946, he moved ot Athens
Athens
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 and visited Aigina.

Christos Kapralos in that connection with the bas-relief for the memory of the Battle of Pindus
Battle of Pindus
The Battle of Pindus took place in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus and West Macedonia, Greece, in the autumn of 1940, between October 28 – November 13. The battle was fought between the Greek and the Italian armies during the first stages of the Greco-Italian War...

 during World War II
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, where he worked between 1940 and 1945 stuck in his village which was once known as Moustafouli, Aitoloakarnania. After the wor with the frieze, march along with the rhapsody
Epic poetry
An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form...

 of history of modern Hellenism.

In May 1964 in the Zygos gallery, A. Tasos presented hil large black and white wooden arts with the mind from the Greek Civil War
Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece , the military branch of the Greek Communist Party , backed by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania...

, one memory for all lost friends of his younger days. From his works forgets the civil war which was set in 1961] and completed his works "The men".

His works were one of the anthropocentrical with the inspiration of Ancient Greek
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 art and mythology
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. His works which he presented with many expos not only in Greece, also in the rest of the world. In Agrinio
Agrinio
Agrinion is the largest city and municipality of the Aetolia-Acarnania peripheral unit of Greece, with 96,321 inhabitants. It is the economical center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its capital is the town of Mesolonghi. The settlement dates back to ancient times...

 in 1996, functioned the only sculpture exposition in the Kapralos Art Screen which is founded in the wall of the Papastrateias Public Library. His works which includes 60 small works with great length, he loved art from the beginning of his career from 1930 untilk 1956. Between those works separate the work Figoura 1951, Melpomene (1940-1945), Kazuo Kikuchi, a Japanese student from Paris (1937) and Christopher (1940-1945).

Bronze
Bronze
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 and marble
Marble
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 works which he displayed in Athens
Athens
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 from 1960 until 1993 in the front of the building, it lets in Athens in the factory at 7 Tripou Street in Koukaki
Koukaki
Koukaki is a southeast neighbourhood of the Municipality of Athens, Greece.-Location:The general area of Koukaki borders from the north with Makrygianni neighbourhood and the historical district of Plaka , the Municipality of Kallithea and Petralona neighbourhood from the south, Neos Kosmos...

.

In the island of Aigina
Aegina
Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island. During ancient times, Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.-Municipality:The municipality...

 where he visited in the summer months featurees a factory by the name Christos Kapralos Museum which is one of the six factories, and exposed all the works which were in display in Aigina every summer from 1963 until 1993.

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